Here I am in the Vienna airport sipping my morning cherry black tea and trying to answer a potential client email before I take off. It may be the cherry flavour or the sunny winter vibe in the airport or maybe simply the wording in the email that I am reading… Not sure, but something ...

"How do I become no. 1?" "It depends." "On what?" "On using your mind."
No, I haven't drunk too much oolong tea this morning. And yes, I am still asking you this. Sit down with me, have a cup of tea or coffee, whichever you like (I've just set out for a light green mango peach ...

"You have to do many things yourself. Things that you cannot delegate." - Nadine Gramling
As you already know, I truly believe managers should build teams, empower team members and orchestrate the implementation of main tasks. I believe managers should and must delegate... a lot. However, in my opinion, they should delegate everything but some tasks that ...

"The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world." - Steve Jobs
My Coconut Milk Mate tea this morning inspired me to write about one of the easiest to explain and most difficult to apply people management mantras. It's the typical hire slow and fire fast. ...

"Don't worry about the things you can't control"
Last week was a bit tiring for me. Loads of projects, loads of worries, lots of competing deadlines. That's why I decided to take the weekend off with my family somewhere in the green mountains area. My father saw that I was a bit stressed out and in ...

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
My morning caramel nougat ice tea, reminds me that I was explaining recently that your team is a reflection of your leadership. You may have grown discontent with your team, ...

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Warren Buffet
My morning honey yuzu green tea routine was interrupted today by a friend of mine asking me what to do to motivate a Senior Manager in her business team. A Senior Manager that has been in her team for long and whose salary ...

"For every hundred men hacking away at the branches of a diseased tree, only one will stoop to inspect the roots." - Chinese Proverb
Drinking my chocolate truffle black tea along with my morning HBR reading. Read an interesting piece on employee performance and immediately was reminded of an organization I worked with, where the management ...

"The question, ‘Who ought to be boss?’ is like asking, ‘Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." - Henry Ford
Here I am. It's Friday and I am having my afternoon cherry vanilla rooibos ice tea and daily intake of delicious cashew. A friend of mine just ...

"The creation of the civil society is the victory of persuasion over force." - Plato
We all know we can't force a kid to eat. Or a cat for that matter. How come as managers we get ourselves to think that we can force our team to work? The paradox of nowadays business environment. Yes, it's that ...